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Essential Materials: Magoosh GRE Prep ETS’s Official Guide to the GRE book (+ our free video explanations) ETS’s PowerPrep Software: If you are a Mac user that can’t use ETS’s Poweprep, or would prefer to take the practice test on paper, you can print out ETS’s practice test PDF (with video explanations here). Take note that the Poweprep software and the paper- based test have overlapping material, so it won’t be of much help to do both, unless you space them out far enough so that you won’t recognize the questions and answers! I recommend using the Poweprep software if you can, since taking the test on a computer is a better simulation of exam day conditions. Subscribe to the Sunday New York Times (NYT), online or print Reading material: this may be any non-fiction scholarly book, history and social science preferable. You may also choose one of the recommended magazines: Scientific American, Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Economist. You are reading (a) to build your reading comprehension skills, (b) to refine your understanding of grammar and usage, and (c) to expand your vocabulary. a journal or notebook (yes, a physical hard copy item) Notecards (or Quizlet.com) WordSmart (or Wordnik.com) Supplemental/Optional Materials: Any of the steps listed in the schedule for the materials below are purely for extra practice, so they are to be done as optional tasks if you have extra time. Any one volume of the Manhattan GRE books. It’s an eight-volume set, so buy as much as you think will help you and as you can afford. One of the purposes of getting one book is to get the code in the back, to register and get access to six CAT tests online. Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math NOTE: Don’t write in any of the test prep books, because for any of them, after a period of time you may want to go back and do a problem again that you haven’t seen for a while. You can only start it fresh if the page is free of your marks. This 90-day plan is demands a manageable pace that must be followed diligently so things don’t get out of hand. It’s designed to have you improve as much as you can improve in a three month period. I have designed twelve weeks, assuming 1-2 hours for each of the five weekdays, and one 4-5 stint on the weekend (―Day Six‖). If you would prefer to work on both weekend days, and free up some weeknight time, feel free to make those changes.

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Page 1: GRE Preparation

Essential Materials:

Magoosh GRE Prep

ETS’s Official Guide to the GRE book (+ our free video explanations)

ETS’s PowerPrep Software: If you are a Mac user that can’t use ETS’s Poweprep, or

would prefer to take the practice test on paper, you can print out ETS’s practice test

PDF (with video explanations here). Take note that the Poweprep software and the paper-

based test have overlapping material, so it won’t be of much help to do both, unless you

space them out far enough so that you won’t recognize the questions and answers! I

recommend using the Poweprep software if you can, since taking the test on a computer

is a better simulation of exam day conditions.

Subscribe to the Sunday New York Times (NYT), online or print

Reading material: this may be any non-fiction scholarly book, history and social science

preferable. You may also choose one of the recommended magazines: Scientific

American, Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, National Geographic, The

Economist. You are reading (a) to build your reading comprehension skills, (b) to refine

your understanding of grammar and usage, and (c) to expand your vocabulary.

a journal or notebook (yes, a physical hard copy item)

Notecards (or Quizlet.com)

WordSmart (or Wordnik.com)

Supplemental/Optional Materials:

Any of the steps listed in the schedule for the materials below are purely for extra practice, so

they are to be done as optional tasks if you have extra time.

Any one volume of the Manhattan GRE books. It’s an eight-volume set, so buy as much

as you think will help you and as you can afford. One of the purposes of getting one

book is to get the code in the back, to register and get access to six CAT tests online.

Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

NOTE: Don’t write in any of the test prep books, because for any of them, after a period of time

you may want to go back and do a problem again that you haven’t seen for a while. You can

only start it fresh if the page is free of your marks.

This 90-day plan is demands a manageable pace that must be followed diligently so things don’t

get out of hand. It’s designed to have you improve as much as you can improve in a three month

period. I have designed twelve weeks, assuming 1-2 hours for each of the five weekdays, and

one 4-5 stint on the weekend (―Day Six‖). If you would prefer to work on both weekend days,

and free up some weeknight time, feel free to make those changes.

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Also, as much as possible, get enough sleep during this month. REM sleep plays an important

role in encoding long term memory, and in an eight hour period of sleep, the last hour has the

most REM. If you are getting 7 hours/night instead of 8 hours/night, you are depriving your

brain of one of its most powerful systems for learning and remembering. Caffeine and energy

drinks will keep you feeling awake if you don’t get enough sleep, but they don’t do bupkis to

replace the lost opportunity to encode more information into long term memory.

Abbreviations

OG = the ETS Official Guide to the GRE

MC = Multiple Choice math questions

MA = Multiple Answer math questions

NE = Numeric Entry math questions

QC = Quantitative Comparison math questions

TC = Text Completion verbal question

SE = Sentence Equivalence verbal question

RC = Reading Comprehension verbal question

AWA = the Analytical Writing Assessment, the essay-writing section

Week One

Week One, Day One

1) Go to http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/about/content/, and read about the content of the

GRE. Click on and read each sub-heading link.

2) In the OG,

Read pp. 1-9

Read pp. 11-17, 25-31

Read pp. 43-46

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Read pp. 107-109

3) Start reading through the GRE Math Review, pp. 207-221. Take notes in your journal on

whatever is unfamiliar. Do the Arithmetic Exercises (pp. 219-220) and correct your answers.

4) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Integer Properties‖, the first two videos in that section

Week One, Day Two

1) Continue reading through the GRE Math Review, pp. 222-233. Take notes in your journal on

whatever is unfamiliar.

2) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Integer Properties‖, up to ―Squares of Integers‖

3) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 MC

For each Magoosh problem, after you submit your answer, on the next page which tells you

whether you were right or wrong, there’s a video solution and below that a text summary. If you

got the question right, skim the text summary to verify you got it right for the right reason. If you

got the question wrong, see if you can figure out for yourself why the right answer is right. After

thinking through it yourself, watch the video, taking notes in your journal about any concept or

any aspect of the question type that was unclear to you

Week One, Day Three

1) Continue reading through the GRE Math Review, pp. 233-243. Take notes in your journal on

whatever is unfamiliar. Do the Algebra Exercises (pp. 243-246) and correct your answers.

2) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Integer Properties‖, up to ―GCD LCM Rule‖

3) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 MC

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Week One, Day Four

1) Continue reading through the GRE Math Review, pp. 248-259. Take notes in your journal on

whatever is unfamiliar. Do the Geometry Exercises (pp. 259-262) and correct your answers.

2) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Integer Properties‖, up to ―Consecutive Integers‖

3) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 MC

Week One, Day Five

1) Continue reading through the GRE Math Review, pp. 263-275. Take notes in your journal on

whatever is unfamiliar.

2) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Integer Properties‖, the last two videos in that section

In Math: under ―Arithmetic, Percents, Ratios‖, the first video in that section

3) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 QC

Week One, Day Six

1) Continue reading through the GRE Math Review, pp. 275-296. Take notes in your journal on

whatever is unfamiliar. Do the Data Analysis Exercises (pp. 296-298) and correct your answers.

2) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In AWA: all ten videos

3) Today, you are going to write four essays, half an hour each. You will write two Issue essays

and two Argument essays.

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For topics, go to the ETS GRE Issue Pool

(http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/prepare/analytical_writing/issue/pool) and the ETS GRE

Argument Pool

(http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/prepare/analytical_writing/argument/pool). Figure out a

way to pick topics at random (maybe you print the lists, cut it into slips of paper, and choose

some at random). Write the essays in a word processing program.

Now that you have these essays, what do you do with them? If you have a friend or mentor who

is a gifted writer, see if they would read the essays for you and critique them. If they are willing,

you can show them the assessment criteria in the OG, and ask them to follow it. If you can’t

convince anyone else to read it, you may try posting them on that same GMAT club forum, and

see whether an expert there will critique your essay. Failing either of these options, at least you

can set the essays aside, and in a couple days re-read them with the OG’s rubric beside you.

Week Two

Week Two, Day One

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Arithmetic, Percents, Ratios‖, up to ―Multiples of 10″

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 3-7

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the first 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word.

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 MC

Week Two, Day Two

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1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Verbal: under ―Text Completion – Overview‖, all six videos

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 9-14

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 TE

5 SE

Week Two, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Arithmetic, Percents, Ratios‖, up to ―Word Problems with Fractions‖

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 15-20

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

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5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 QC

Week Two, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Verbal: under ―Text Completion – No Shifts‖, all four videos

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 21-25

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 RC

Week Two, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Arithmetic, Percents, Ratios‖, up to ―Percent Increase and Decrease‖

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 27-33

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

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Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

20 MC

Week Two, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to write two essays, half an hour each. You will write one Issue essay

and one Argument essay.

For topics, go back to the topics from the ETS Issue Pool & Argument Pool. Again, choose

topics at random. Write the essays in Word.

When done, share the essays with a trusted friend/mentor, or post in the GMAT forum, or set

aside and critique it yourself with the OG rubric in a few days.

2) In the OG & McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math:

a) in OG, on pp. 54-74, do the Verbal Reasoning Practice Sets 1-6

b) in OG, on pp. 145-160 do the Quantitative Reasoning Practice Sets 1-4

c) in McGraw-Hill, on pp. 293-296, do GRE Math Practice Section 1

Treat this as a mock GRE. You might even combine it with the two essays, and do consecutive

batches 2-3 set without interruption, to simulate more effectively a real GRE. Set a timer for the

time limits. Here are the time limits to observe:

OG Verbal Reasoning Set 1 = 9 minutes

OG Verbal Reasoning Set 2 = 10 minutes

OG Verbal Reasoning Set 3 = 9 minutes

OG Verbal Reasoning Set 4 = 10 minutes

OG Verbal Reasoning Set 5 = 10 minutes

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OG Verbal Reasoning Set 6 = 10 minutes

OG Quantitative Reasoning Set 1 = 22 minutes

OG Quantitative Reasoning Set 2 = 23 minutes

OG Quantitative Reasoning Set 3 = 24 minutes

OG Quantitative Reasoning Set 4 = 11 minutes

McGraw-Hill, GRE Math section = 35 minutes

After you are done, check all your answers. For any question you got right, skim the explanation

to verify that you got it right for the right reason. For any question you got wrong, read the

explanation thorough, taking notes in your journal on any concepts you didn’t understand and

anything about the question format that psyched you out. If you still can’t make sense of the

question after reading the explanation, email us at Magoosh.

If you are doing much better than expected on either Math or Verbal, this might be a good time

to consider whether you should switch to another version of the 3-month plan (see explanations

of them at the top).

Week Three

Week Three, Day One

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Arithmetic, Percents, Ratios‖, the last four videos in that section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 35-39; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

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5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 MC

Week Three, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Verbal: under RC videos, the first six videos

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 39-41, do the ―Practice Problems‖ on p. 41 and check your answer; take notes in your

journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 TE

5 SE

Week Three, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Algebra, Equations, Inequalities‖, the first four videos in that section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 43-44; take the ―Number Properties Test 1″ (pp. 45-47), grade yourself, and read the

solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

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3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 QC

Week Three, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Verbal: under RC videos, the last five videos

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―solved GRE Problems‖ on pp. 49-50 and ―GRE Practice Problems‖ on p. 51, grade

yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 RC

Week Three, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

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In Math: under ―Algebra, etc‖, up to ―Factoring – Rational Expressions‖

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 52-56; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

20 MC

Week Three, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to write four essays, half an hour each. You will write two Issue essays

and two Argument essays.

For topics, go back to the topics from the ETS Issue Pool & Argument Pool. Again, choose

topics at random. Write the essays in Word.

When done, share the essays with a trusted friend/mentor, or post in the GMAT forum, or set

aside and critique it yourself with the OG rubric in a few days.

Week Four

Week Four, Day One

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Algebra, etc‖, up to ―Three Equations with Three Unknowns‖

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

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read pp. 56-57, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 57), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take

notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 MC

Week Four, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Verbal: under SE videos, the six videos of that section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

take ―Number Properties Test 2″ (pp. 59-61), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes

in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 TE

5 SE

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Week Four, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Algebra, etc‖, up to ―Working with Formulas‖

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―solved GRE Problems‖ on pp. 63-64 and ―GRE Practice Problems‖ on pp. 64-65, grade

yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down

any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do 10 QC

Week Four, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Verbal: in ―Text Completion – Sentence Shifts‖, the first four videos

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 67-69; do the ―Practice Problems‖ on p. 70, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take

notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down

any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do 10 RC

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Week Four, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Algebra, etc‖, the last five videos in that section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 71-74; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards.

4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down

any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems: 5 MC, 5 NE

Week Four, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take the hard copy practice GRE in the OG, starting on p. 303.

For the two essay questions, write the essays in a word processing program. These essays you

will either share with a trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for feedback,

or critique later with the OG rubric.

As much as possible, try to mimic the GRE conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in

between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real

GRE. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for

dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and

concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

Week Five

Week Five, Day One

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

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In Math: under ―Word Problems‖, the first three videos in that section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 75-76, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 76), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take

notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up

and write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do 20 MC.

Week Five, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Verbal: in ―Text Completion – Sentence Shifts‖, the last five videos

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 77-81; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up

and write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems: 10 TE, 5 SE

Week Five, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Word Problems‖, up to ―Age Questions‖

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2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 81-84, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 84), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take

notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down

any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do 10 QC.

Week Five, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Verbal: in ―Text Completion – Double Blanks‖, all five videos in that section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 87-89, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 90), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take

notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down

any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do 5 RC.

Week Five, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Word Problems‖, up to ―Shrinking and Expanding Gaps‖

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2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―Arithmetic Computation Test 1 (pp. 90-96), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take

notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down

any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do 10 MC.

Week Five, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take your first of the MGMAT practice tests. Take the whole test,

and then read & study the explanations, taking notes on whatever you got wrong — whatever

about the concepts or the questions format was unclear.

As much as possible, try to mimic the GRE conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in

between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real

GRE. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for

dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and

concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

Week Six

Week Six, Day One

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Word Problems‖, up to ―Three Criteria Venn Diagrams‖

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―solved GRE Problems‖ on pp. 99-100 and ―GRE Practice Problems‖ on pp. 100-102,

grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

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Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do 20 MC.

Week Six, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

In Verbal: in ―Text Completion – Tripe Blanks‖, the first four videos in that section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read p. 103, do the ―Word Problems‖ on pp. 103-104, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take

notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up

and write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems:

10 TE

10 SE

Week Six, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Word Problems‖, up to ―Growth Tables‖

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

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read pp. 104-107; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down

any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems:

10 QC

Week Six, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos:

In Verbal: in ―Text Completion – Tripe Blanks‖, the last three videos in that section.

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 108-109, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 109), grade yourself, and read the

solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 RC

Week Six, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

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In Math: under ―Word Problems‖, the last four videos in that section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 111-113, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (pp. 113-114), grade yourself, and read the

solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down

any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems:

5 MC

5MA

Week Six, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take another one of the MGMAT practice tests. Take the whole test,

and then read & study the explanations, taking notes on whatever you got wrong — whatever

about the concepts or the questions format was unclear.

As much as possible, try to mimic the GRE conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in

between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real

GRE. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for

dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and

concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

Week Seven

Week Seven, Day One

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Power and Roots‖, the first five videos in the section

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2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 115-116, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 117), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

read pp. 117-120, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 121), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 MC

Week Seven, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Power and Roots‖, up to ―Simplifying Roots‖

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 122-125, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (pp. 125-126), grade yourself, and read the

solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up

and write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 TE

5 SE

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Week Seven, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Power and Roots‖, the last four videos in the section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 127-131; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down

any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 QC

Week Seven, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Coordinate Geometry‖, the first four videos in the section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read p. 132, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 133), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read pp.

134-136, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 137), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes

in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down

any words you don’t know.

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5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 RC

Week Seven, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Coordinate Geometry‖, the last five videos in the section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―Arithmetic Computation Test 2″ (pp. 138-142), grade yourself, and read the

solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down

any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

20 MC

Week Seven, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take another one of the MGMAT practice tests. Take the whole test,

and then read & study the explanations, taking notes on whatever you got wrong — whatever

about the concepts or the questions format was unclear.

As much as possible, try to mimic the GRE conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in

between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real

GRE. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for

dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and

concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

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Week Eight

Week Eight, Day One

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Geometry‖, the first four videos in the section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―solved GRE Problems‖ on pp. 145-146 and ―GRE Practice Problems‖ on pp. 147-149,

grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 MC

Week Eight, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Geometry‖, up to ―Polygons‖

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 151-153, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 154), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

read pp. 154-157, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 158), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

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4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 TE

5 SE

Week Eight, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Geometry‖, up to ―Circle Properties‖

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 158-159, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 160) and ―Algebra Test I‖ (pp. 160-165), grade

yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 QC

Week Eight, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Geometry‖, the last three videos in the section

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2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―solved GRE Problems‖ on p. 168 and ―GRE Practice Problems‖ on pp. 169-171, grade

yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 RC

Week Eight, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Statistics‖, all five videos in the section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 172-173, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 173), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

read pp. 174-178, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 179), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 MC

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10 NE

Week Eight, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take another one of the MGMAT practice tests. Take the whole test,

and then read & study the explanations, taking notes on whatever you got wrong — whatever

about the concepts or the questions format was unclear.

As much as possible, try to mimic the GRE conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in

between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real

GRE. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for

dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and

concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

Week Nine

Week Nine, Day One

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Counting‖, the first four videos in the section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 180-183, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 183), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

read pp. 184-186, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 186), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

20 MC

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Week Nine, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Counting‖, up to ―MISSISSIPPI rule‖

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―Algebra Test 2″ (pp. 187-192), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your

journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 TE

5 SE

Week Nine, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Counting‖, the last four videos in the section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―solved GRE Problems‖ on p. 195 and ―GRE Practice Problems‖ on pp. 196-197, grade

yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

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4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 QC

Week Nine, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Probability‖, the first three videos in the section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 198-205, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 205), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 RC

Week Nine, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Probability‖, up to ―Determining Independence‖

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

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read pp. 207-209, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 210), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

read p. 211 do the ―Practice Problems‖ (pp. 211-2), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take

notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 MC

Week Nine, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take another one of the MGMAT practice tests. Take the whole test,

and then read & study the explanations, taking notes on whatever you got wrong — whatever

about the concepts or the questions format was unclear.

As much as possible, try to mimic the GRE conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in

between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real

GRE. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for

dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and

concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

Week Ten

Week Ten, Day One

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

In Math: under ―Probability‖, the last four videos in that section

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

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read pp. 212-216, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 216), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

20 MC

Week Ten, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

At this point, you should be done with all the Magoosh lesson videos. Keep up a pace of

watching 4-5 videos a day, watching whatever videos you decide you need to see a second time.

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 218-219, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 219), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

read pp. 220-225; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 TE

5 SE

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Week Ten, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for a second time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 225-229, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 229), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 QC

Week Ten, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for a second time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―Algebra Test 3″ (pp. 231-236), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your

journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

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Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 RC

Week Ten, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for a second time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―solved GRE Problems‖ on pp. 241-2 and ―GRE Practice Problems‖ on pp. 243-245,

grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 MC

Week Ten, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take another one of the MGMAT practice tests. Take the whole test,

and then read & study the explanations, taking notes on whatever you got wrong — whatever

about the concepts or the questions format was unclear.

As much as possible, try to mimic the GRE conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in

between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real

GRE. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for

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dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and

concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

Week Eleven

Week Eleven, Day One

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for a second or third time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 247-250, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 250), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

read pp. 251-252, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 253), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

20 MC

Week Eleven, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for a second or third time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

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read pp. 253-257, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (pp. 257-258), grade yourself, and read the

solutions; read pp. 259-262, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 262), grade yourself, and read the

solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 TE

10 SE

Week Eleven, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for a second or third time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read p. 263, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 264), grade yourself, and read the solutions; read pp.

265-267, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 267), grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes

in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

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10 QC

Week Eleven, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for a second or third time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

read pp. 268-271, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 271), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

read pp. 273-275, do the ―Practice Problems‖ (p. 275), grade yourself, and read the solutions;

take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 RC

Week Eleven, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for a second or third time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―Geometry Test‖ on pp. 277-281, grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in

your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

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Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 MC

Week Eleven, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take the last of the MGMAT practice tests. Take the whole test, and

then read & study the explanations, taking notes on whatever you got wrong — whatever about

the concepts or the questions format was unclear.

As much as possible, try to mimic the GRE conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in

between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real

GRE. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for

dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and

concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

Week Twelve

Week Twelve, Day One

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for an additional time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

do the ―solved GRE Problems‖ on pp. 284-285 and ―GRE Practice Problems‖ on pp. 285-287,

grade yourself, and read the solutions; take notes in your journal on anything new or unfamiliar.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

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4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 MC

10 MA

Week Twelve, Day Two

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for an additional time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

In a 35 minute sitting, take GRE Math Practice Section 2 (p. 303-306); grade it right after, but

you don’t have to check all the solutions tonight.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

three good-sized article from the Sunday NYT, noting grammatical structures. Look up and

write down any words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 TE

5 SE

Week Twelve, Day Three

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

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Watch any 4-5 videos for an additional time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

Go over the solutions to GRE Math Practice Section 2. For questions you got right, skim the

explanation, simply to verify that you got it right for the right reason, and that there’s nothing

further about that topic you need to know. For questions you got wrong, read the explanation

carefully, writing in your journal anything new you learn or anything you need to remember.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

10 QC

Week Twelve, Day Four

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for an additional time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

In a 35 minute sitting, take GRE Math Practice Section 3 (p. 313-315); grade it right after, but

you don’t have to check all the solutions tonight.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the next 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not immediately obvious to you,

make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

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5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 RC

Week Twelve, Day Five

1) In Magoosh, watch the following videos

Watch any 4-5 videos for an additional time

2) In McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math

Go over the solutions to GRE Math Practice Section 3. For questions you got right, skim the

explanation, simply to verify that you got it right for the right reason, and that there’s nothing

further about that topic you need to know. For questions you got wrong, read the explanation

carefully, writing in your journal anything new you learn or anything you need to remember.

3) In Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know

Look over the what should be the last 20 words. For each one, if the definition is not

immediately obvious to you, make a flashcard for the word. Review your flashcards

4) Read

Your chosen reading material (one chapter, or a few articles). Look up and write down any

words you don’t know.

5) In Magoosh, do the following problems

5 MC

10 NE

Week Twelve, Day Six

1) Today, you are going to take the practice GRE available through the GRE PowerPrep

software. Pay attention to any differences you notice between the MGMAT tests and this one:

this one is presumably much more representative of the real GMAT.

As much as possible, try to mimic the GRE conditions. Give yourself relatively short breaks in

between sections. Only eat the kinds of snacks that you are planning to bring to the real

GRE. Note how your sleep the night before affects your work. Note how what you had for

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dinner the previous night and what you had to eat earlier that day affects your energy level and

concentration. Write any observations in your journal.

At the end, copy the essays you wrote into a Word doc, and as before, these you will share with a

trusted friend or mentor, or post in the online forums asking for feedback, or critique later with

the OG rubric.

After Week 12: Concentrated Review

At this point, if you have been following the schedule, you should have done every question in

both Magoosh at least once. For whatever days remain before the test, keep up work on GRE

math and verbal. Some suggestions for what to do:

1) Through selecting question type & difficulty on the ―Dashboard‖, do Magoosh problems over

again, and see how you do a second time.

3) Keep watching for a additional time 4-5 Magoosh lesson videos a day, on whatever topics you

feel you need to review

4) Keep reading your challenging material, to build vocabulary and acclimate your ear to

eloquent style.

5) Keep drilling your vocab cards.

6) Re-read any topics in the McGraw-Hill’s Conquering the New GRE Math — any topics where

you feel you would benefit from further review.

Day before the test:

1) No GRE preparation all day

2) Eat a large, healthy, leisurely dinner – no alcohol!

3) Go to bed earlier than usual.

Day of test

1) ABSOLUTELY NO LAST MINUTE GRE PREPARATION!

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2) Eat a large breakfast, full of protein

3) Do relaxing, fun activities to pass time until the test

Bring to the test

1) A liter of water

2) Healthy energy-packed snacks (nuts, protein bar, etc.)

3) On breaks, make sure to get up, move & stretch – moving & stretching the large muscles of

the body (legs & torso) will get oxygen flowing throughout, which will help keep you awake and

keep you thinking clearly.

Any questions on this plan? Just leave us a comment!

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